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LOS ANGELES RIVER SERIES #23
Los Angeles River Series #23
Confluence and Source
Canoga Park
Acrylic on Canvas 24”x 30”x 1.5” SOLD
Los Angeles River Series #22
(2021)
The Los Angeles River begins not in some shady canyon spring in the Santa Monica, Santa Susana or San Gabriel Mountains; rather its humble birth is near a San Fernando Valley strip mall in the suburb of Canoga Park, 1,000 feet north of the Westfield Mall Costco. Here amid parking lots and housing tracts, the concrete walls of the Arroyo Calabassas Creek and the Bell Creek channels merge and the Los Angeles River commences its 51-mile trek to the Pacific Ocean in Long Beach.
Los Angeles River Painting 23 The Source depicts this unassuming beginning. Instead of a scenic background of mountains, there stands a local high school constructed of concrete -- just like the river’s channel. And instead of reflections of pine and oak trees, one sees reflections of palm trees, chain link fences, and a sandy concrete bottom with maintenance vehicle tire marks of pink, red and gold. This is the image of a suburban birth. This is a suburban river.
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